Sentence examples for a specimen in from inspiring English sources

Queen Victoria reportedly offered a knighthood to anyone who could bring her a specimen in edible condition.

The African baobab (A. digitata) boasts the oldest known angiosperm tree: carbon-14 dating places the age of a specimen in Namibia at about 1,275 years.

Last June that panel offered its opinion that "it seems quite unlikely that Julia Pastrana would have wanted her body to remain a specimen in an anatomical collection".

At the Keen Mountain Correctional Center, a gray complex of poured concrete in rural southwest Virginia, Joseph Jesse Dick Jr. sits behind the thick glass pane of a prison interview booth like a specimen in an oversize shadow box.

He never smiles when Gabe burps or chews his toes; he simply stares disinterestedly, as if his son were a specimen in a lab or an anthropological sample, performing curious local customs.

The particular cobra he discovered was the kind that spits its venom, a feat Slowinski would later experience himself, when a specimen in Myanmar rose up, spread its silvery scaled hood and spat at the gap-toothed herpetologist.

Open image in new window Fig. 2 a Specimens in drying oven and b temperature cycles.

Let's say a teacher assigns a student the sentence "Virtue secures happiness"—a likely specimen in 1847.

Features that can be conveniently seen in a specimen held in the hand are within the domain of sedimentary petrology.

Study nurses obtained a respiratory sputum sample and a urine specimen in a sterile container.

In 2004, a specimen found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China was claimed as evidence for parental care in dinosaurs.